Virginia House Bill 2381 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-05 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Office of the Children's Ombudsman; Children's Advocacy Fund. Creates the Office of the Children's Ombudsman to provide ombudsman services, including investigation of complaints, advocacy, and information for children, parents, and citizens involved with child-serving agencies, as defined in the bill. The bill provides for the Office of the Governor to conduct a needs assessment with the Department of General Services to provide for the office space needs of the Office of the Children's Ombudsman. The bill also creates the Children's Advocacy Fund for the purpose of supporting the operations of the Office of the Children's Ombudsman. The Fund would be funded in part by fines collected from criminal offenses involving a child.

Children's Ombudsman, Office of the, and Children's Advocacy Fund; created.

Del. Chris Hurst [D]	Del. Terry Austin [R]	Del. Dawn Adams [D]	Del. Karrie Delaney [D]
Del. Wendy Gooditis [D]	Del. Kaye Kory [D]	Del. Mark Levine [D]	Del. Michael Mullin [D]
Del. Debra Rodman [D]	Del. Marcus Simon [D]

2019-01-28 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-05	House	Left in Appropriations
2019-01-28	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
2019-01-14	House	Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources
2019-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2019-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103801D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	371.5	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	214.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2381
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2381+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H0205V0008+HB2381